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The seamstress’s apprentices
One of Prima Crisafalo’s costumes from NEYT’s 2015 presentation of “The Tempest.”
Arts

The seamstress’s apprentices

Grant allows NEYT to train a new generation of costume designers, with a little help from an up-and-coming Brattleboro-based corsetière
By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

BRATTLEBORO — This story will be reposted soon with corrections.

Arts

Spring group show, ‘Painter’s Ethos,’ opens in Brattleboro

BRATTLEBORO-Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 181–183 Main St., welcomes everyone to "Painter's Ethos," a group exhibit featuring...

John Stowell and Draa Hobbs to perform at Stage 33 Live

BELLOWS FALLS-World-class jazz comes to Stage 33 Live in Bellows Falls with guitarists John Stowell...

Elite circus artists perform to celebrate World Circus Day

BRATTLEBORO-A new circus show is launching - and Brattleboro audiences will get to see it...

Putney library hosts Peeps Diorama Contest

PUTNEY-It's time again for the Putney Public Library's annual Peeps Diorama contest. Those brightly colored...

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News

Connectivity: How does it happen, and who pays?

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, July 3, 2019 — Issue 517

Gretchen Havreluk, Wilmington's Economic & Community Development Consultant, was late to a June 28 meeting on broadband internet access with U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., in Brattleboro. Why? Havreluk said she was in her office at her home in Jacksonville, trying to submit a grant application for Wilmington to the Vermont Agency of Transportation. She said she could not download the information because her internet connection was too slow. That little vignette illustrated the frustration that many Vermonters still experience...

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Voices

No signs of logic. Figuratively.

By
Aidan Smith
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 — Issue 758

Tim Wessel believes he's cleverly posed a gotcha-question when he asks, "Can it be 'genocide' when the population of Gaza has essentially tripled in the last 25 years?" Yes. Yes, it can. Would Wessel argue that the Holocaust wasn't a genocide if it was found that the Jewish population in Germany increased prior to the Holocaust? Of course he wouldn't. Population growth has nothing to do with the crimes against humanity inflicted on a people. The U.N. Convention on the...

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Arts

Vital Partnerships, BMAC present Pride Prom during Gallery Walk on June 2

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 — Issue 717

In collaboration with Vital Partnerships and Out in the Open, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) is hosting a free dance party at the museum during Gallery Walk, on Friday, June 2, at 7:30 p.m. The party will feature a DJ, photo booth, balloons, refreshments, and a make-your-own-boutonniere station with Pride ribbons. The event, open to all ages, will offer a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community and others to celebrate Pride month and prom season. The event...

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